Trade talks between the United States and Mexico resumed amid growing doubts about the likelihood of a successful conclusion to renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).

Leave it to California to come up with America’s latest anti-imperialist twist.

A friend of mine once complained bitterly about working in an industry he thought was taking advantage of people and their pain and anguish, physical and psychological. The industry was Big Pharma.

I sometimes think the expat community here at Lakeside believes it has no right to complain about anything here in Mexico.

Not long ago, I took a rare trip motoring from lakeside into Guadalajara, the city once known as the Pearl of the West. 

Mexicans eat bugs. And so should gringos. “Consume more insects” is a directive from the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization to the whole world, reminding us that there are more than 1,900 edible insect species on Earth, hundreds already part of the diet of some two billion people in different countries, among them Mexico. And global food production will not keep up with current population growth.